Specialist community care teams will continue to play an important role for people living with HIV, particularly with clients who are ageing and were diagnosed before new treatments were introduced in 1996, new research shows.

Large not-for-profit aged care provider RDNS has entered into an agreement with two health care organisations in China to set up home nursing services in the city of Qingdao, with an eye to further expansion.

Technology and new approaches to the design and operation of healthcare to deliver services more effectively and efficiently is the theme of this year’s Australian Healthcare Week event, which for the first time includes a full day focused on aged care.

Two major independent not-for-profit aged care providers have this morning announced plans to merge into what will become one of the largest aged care not-for-profits in Australia, with an asset base of $1 billion.

Australian community care providers joined an international delegation to tour Europe to learn about cutting-edge consumer-directed technologies and bring back lessons for practice, policy and funding in Australia.

As Australia moves to a national system of quality indicators in aged care, new research into their use in Victoria finds the majority of senior clinicians see the benefits, but there are caveats to successful implementation.

With the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement paving the way for Australian aged care providers to set up in the world’s second largest economy, the opportunities are potentially enormous as China seeks to double its aged care beds by 2020.